Have you ever booted up your computer and notice a Microsoft Edge icon, that you haven’t placed there before, junking up your desktop? Whenever Edge does an update, it automatically places an icon on the desktop. In this video I will show you how to stop this from happening in the future! This video will work on all version of Edge and running on Windows 10 and 11.

regedit location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE//SOFTWARE//Policies//Microsoft
New Key Name: EdgeUpdate
DWORD (32-Bit) Value Name: CreateDesktopShortcutDefault

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